Pith Number

pith:JBDSMC4A

pith:2011:JBDSMC4AOUQUTA7FSXK7GDW7H5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On tails of perpetuities

Pawel Hitczenko

arxiv:1101.2183 v1 · 2011-01-11 · math.PR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JBDSMC4AOUQUTA7FSXK7GDW7H5}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T04:31:50.764868Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4847260b8075214983e595d5f30edf3f4ffbf0fccd20a54ab8cbba6e76855837

Aliases

arxiv: 1101.2183 · arxiv_version: 1101.2183v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1101.2183 · pith_short_12: JBDSMC4AOUQU · pith_short_16: JBDSMC4AOUQUTA7F · pith_short_8: JBDSMC4A

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JBDSMC4AOUQUTA7FSXK7GDW7H5 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 4847260b8075214983e595d5f30edf3f4ffbf0fccd20a54ab8cbba6e76855837

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c29cd4b808b9e171e26f881db0bd45a573e9c4bba257ae10835b0b379314cbf2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "math.PR",
    "submitted_at": "2011-01-11T19:25:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a09cb2c3520e7660edf2ef16b829ffbd859a7f5a9de3f703d6513ca88eb88077"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1101.2183",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}